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j Patented na 27, I898.

MUTHHEBR.

CARTRIDGE.

(Application filed. Apr. 5,- 1898.)

(No Modal.)

e X i 1/? UNITED STAT S PATEN OFFICE.

JOSEF MUTl-IIIERR, OF NUREMBERG, GERMANY.

CARTRIDGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,721, dated December 27', 1898.

Application filed April- 5,1898.

1898,)01? which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description.

My invention relates to cartridges adapted to central firing, and hasfor its object to provide means whereby said cartridges may have only a priming-powder, such as used in the well-known Flobert ball-caps.

To this end my invention consists in the particular features of construction hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure l is a sectional view of the improved cartridge; and Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, taken'at right angles'to that shown in Fig. 1.

a is the shell of the cartridge, in the interior of which the priming-powder b is located on the bottom of the shell a. Said priming- Serial No, 676,510. (No model.)

powder I) is covered by a layer or disk d of any suitable material, and "across the same there is arranged a pin or cross-stay 0, being secured in the shell a by pressure,which forms a shoulder. in the shell, said shoulder bearing on the ends of the bar to hold the same. The upper end of the cartridge-shell a bears the hallo, which is inserted in a well-known manner. The pin or cross-stay 0 serves as a beater or anvilfor firing the priming-powder b, which may be done by a central stroke on the rear side of the cartridge.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A cartridge having a shoulder formed therein, an explosive in the' base of the cartridge, a disk bearing on the explosive, and a bar 10- cated in the cartridge and extending trans- Versely thereto and having its ends bearing on the shoulder whereby to hold the bar in place, the bar bearing on the disk and forming an anvil on which to fire the explosive.

' JOSEF MUTHHERR. Witnesses I LORENZ PtiRNER, MART. HANS. J EUNING. 

